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Götterdämmerung (“Twilight of the Gods"): The international order buckles; Hamas conducts massive surprise attack on Israel, as support for Ukraine weakens

Biden and Scholz need to answer one question: Why shouldn't Ukraine be permitted to use weapons supplied by NATO countries to attack targets in Russia?

The crazy chessboard Biden has set up forcing Ukraine to fight with one hand tied behind its back

House Republicans focus on impeachment ground based on Biden's dogs biting Secret Service agents

Brazil archives detail extraordinary UFO incidents

What understandings does Biden have with Putin regarding Ukraine?

Lessons from the Ukraine War--On Freedom

Biden and Scholz modulate military aid with Ukrainian lives

Biden to urge expansion of number of Permanent Members of U.N. Security Council

The American political circus: The "Banana Republic" Republicans want to impeach Joe Biden

Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan could cost him the election

Ukraine war: No more talk of talks; The West must plan for a long war and aim for victory

REVISED AND UPDATED: The decline of truth and respect for expertise: The foreign policy ignorance of the American electorate and its portents

The decline of truth and respect for expertise: The foreign policy ignorance of the American electorate and its portents

Ukraine and the Republican debate on Wednesday, August 23

The spectator war

Echoes of peace proposals in May, 1940: "Territorial concessions" are still being discussed in NATO consultations

Why won't Biden and NATO countries let Ukraine attack targets in Russia?

Roger Cohen on "Putin’s Forever War"

When reason is swept aside

Biden's foreign policy judgment; Send in the ATACMS now, Mr. President

The fateful grip of war on human minds

Biden's ebullient triumphalism in Stockholm, and the grim reality of a stalled counter-offensive

Should NATO admit Ukraine AFTER the war, or NOW in order to win the war?

This zany world: Pig fed diet of junk food for seven years rescued from small flat

Biden blocks Ben Watson, supports Ursula von der Leyen for next NATO Secretary General after Jens Stoltenberg

The Telegraph reports that the U.S. is close to approving long-range ATACMS artillery rockets for Ukraine

Biden's fear of Putin and Putin's fear of NATO

Ukraine: Could long-range ATACMS (180 mile or 300 km) join Ukrainian combined arms counter-offensive?

The next strategic issues: Ukrainian use of Western-supplied weapons in full exercise of its right of self-defense, and supplying Ukraine with ATACMS rockets for unmodified HIMARS artillery units

Ukraine War: Antony Blinken rejects "territorial concessions", negotiations at this point, and any ceasefire which would freeze the conflict; Ukraine's right to strike targets in Russia

Attacks on targets in Russia; U.K. breaks ranks with U.S.

Ukraine, Belgorod, and the right of self-defense under International Law and the United Nations Charter

Putin unchained--Ukrainian burgers: Not "Eat your enemy's lunch" but rather "Eat your enemy for lunch"

Ukraine: U.S. policy on "territorial concessions", peremptory norms of international law, and the history of U.S. policy over the last 90 years

Ukraine War: The continuing illusion of "negotiations"; wishful thinking and potential appeasement in Ukraine

Putin’s propaganda and red herrings, such as the drone “attack” on the Kremlin

The Ukraine War, and Trump v. Biden in 2024: The relentless application of reason and law to the facts

Developments in Tunisia and Sudan signal an end, at least for now, to the democratic hopes of the 2011 Arab Spring

Ukraine War: On the American Front, Peggy Noonan suggests Trump-Biden contest is not inevitable (UPDATED)

Potential problems of sex in space: What normal people are worrying about

We must defend Western Civilization as we follow its path into the future--Part Three

We must defend Western Civilization as we follow its path into the future--Part Two

We must defend Western Civilization as we follow its path into the future--Part One

Fighting in Sudan: Deep insights into the background of the conflict

HUGE NEWS! German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock secures statement by Chinese foreign minister that China will not provide arms to Russia

Repetitive arguments and decision making in the Ukraine war

China's military threats against Taiwan violate the United Nations Charter

Will Trump be reelected in 2024?

Nice try: Biden's attempt to displace blame for the Afghanistan withdrawal catastrophe

Ukraine War: Weaknesses in the strategy of the West

April 1, 2023: Trump takes weekend vacation in Bahamas before arraignment in Manhattan on Tuesday, April 4.

Reflections on the war, and on dangerous developments on the American Front

FEAR: After delays and hesitations, the looming arrest of Donald Trump

Russian war of aggression against Ukraine impedes global action to halt climate change

New email

Reflections on Man’s ascent toward the triumph of good over evil, of liberty and freedom over tyranny

Republican Governor Ron DeSantis strongly suggests he will not support Ukraine further if elected in 2024

UPDATED: The most important front in the Ukraine war is America, not the Donbas

UPDATED--THE WAR TO SAVE THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER, AND UKRAINE: General Assembly Resolution A/ES-11/L.7 (February 23, 2023). Text of Resolution, with links to video of G.A and S.C. debates

Kaiser Olaf meets with President Joe to discuss Ukraine war strategy

THE WAR TO SAVE THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER, AND UKRAINE: General Assembly Resolution G/ES-11/L.7 (text); with video links to General Assembly and Security Council debates on February 23 and 24, 2023

The last international lawyer, or so it seemed

“Woke” ideology and the defense of Ukraine; Blinken confronts top Chinese diplomat in Munich; President Biden undertakes historic visit to Kyiv

In “the toilet war”, EU sanctions against Russia include toilets and related fixtures

Blinken and Biden undercut Ukraine on retaking the Crimea; Biden must reconstitute his foreign policy team if he is to have a chance of winning in 2024

International law and outdated political concepts; "a party to the war" and "neutrality"; Article 51 of the U.N. Charter

Intercepted communication suggests 98 "Thenians" on board cylindrical-shaped UFO shot down on Saturday over Canada; Communication intercepted was in Chinese

Suppressed Thought: Ukraine and the West could lose the war–What a Russian victory would mean

Turkey flouts sanctions; Will U.S. and EU press fence-sitters in the "Global South"?

Muddled thinking continues: Military aid to Ukraine “must not be escalatory”

Bean counters push BBC to act of utter stupidity: BBC Arabic radio broadcast goes off the air after 85 years

Scholz has already failed NATO, sending Putin a signal that will confirm his belief in his strategy: Divisions will emerge in NATO and over time military support for Ukraine will decline or collapse

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ("Lula") fires commander of Army: Brazil responds to January 8 “insurrection” and attempt to provoke a military coup

Poland threatens to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine without German approval

Scholz and Germany plan to block transfer of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, setting forth "bad faith" condition for transfers

NATO Policy on Transfer to Ukraine of Armored Vehicles and Battle Tanks is Changing, as Putin's Nuclear Threats Lose Credibility

The West's goals in the Ukraine war: Avoiding defeat or achieving victory?

Brazil's Lula favors “dialogue” with Putin, underlining the West’s failure to secure support in the “Global South”

Hacked--Do not respond to suspicious appeal for money

President Biden, NATO, do something! It is obscene to stand by and do nothing to stop Putin as he pummels Ukraine

It all boils down to empathy -- Part Two